New charges against San Jose cop charged with rape

Updated 4:48 pm, Wednesday, May 14, 2014

A San Jose police officer charged with raping a woman after she had argued with her husband is facing new domestic-violence allegations involving a former girlfriend.

Officer Geoffrey Graves, 38, who has been with the Police Department for six years, was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of domestic violence for separate incidents involving a former girlfriend.

In the first incident in December 2012, Graves fought with his then-girlfriend over a set of keys and she ended up cutting her hands, said Carlos Vega, a Santa Clara County deputy district attorney.

In a second incident, which happened sometime between March and June 2013, Graves kicked a door the same woman had tried to close during an argument, and the door hit her in the face, cutting her lips, the prosecutor said.

Graves pleaded not guilty in Santa Clara County Superior Court to those charges as well as a charge of rape in the case of the woman who had been arguing with her husband.

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In that incident, authorities said Graves and three other San Jose officers responded to a family disturbance involving a married couple. The officers determined that both spouses had been drinking and had argued, but that no crime had occurred.

The woman, who works as a maid, spent the night at a hotel where she had previously been employed. After falling asleep in her room, she awoke to a knock, opened the door and was forcibly pushed onto the bed by Graves, police said.

Graves, who was still on duty, took off his uniform with the exception of his bulletproof vest and raped her, authorities said.

The woman reported the incident in October to the California Highway Patrol after officers with that agency arrested her on suspicion of drunken driving, Vega said. She pleaded no contest in that case.

There was no evidence that the woman made up the allegations against Graves in exchange for leniency in her DUI case, the prosecutor said.

"It is imperative that the community knows that our office treats these incidents the same, regardless of the perpetrator," Vega said.

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